[s-cars] Special thanks to the Gregs for BIRA

[Greg Johnson]

Dave,

You're most welcome.  Many thanks for taking the time to write and for the
kudos.  We believed our parts were over-engined when we designed them and
it's good to know they've provided almost a decade of service without
issue.  We've always felt that the folks who ripped off our designs never
did the necessary engineering.  They just went to our web site and saw what
calipers we were placing over which rotors and tried to do the same thing.
Later on they discovered, there was a bit more to the process.

I'd like to take the opportunity to thank you and our hundreds of other
members.  It was a fun and special time. It's strange to think of it all in
retrospect but so it goes.

Greg J

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 12:56 PM, David Forgie <forgied at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Greg J:  I don't know how many times you have been thanked publically for
> developing and
> implementing the BIRA systems but after your recent posting on the history
> of BIRA, I feel
> that I need to publicly thank you.  I bought my 93 S4 in 1998 and
> immediately started on
> the slippery slope. First up was brakes because my mantra is "Always more
> brakes BEFORE
> more power".  As you pointed out (and I remember), there were no
> inexpensive brake modding
> pathways back then, at least until BIRA showed up.  I was an early adopter
> and own System 1
> brackets 003 and 004.  The brackets have been on the car since 1999 (98?)
> and there have been
>  zero problems with them.  This has not been the case with at least two
> firms that have tried the same
> concept but failed to execute with the same attention to detail that you
> and Greg did with the BIRA
> brackets.
>
> Thanks again for developing an affordable brake upgrade pathway.
>
> Dave F.
>